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Welcome to our world, the Prespa lakes!

You are at the official website of the Life+ Information & Communication Project "Fish, Fisheries and European Policy in the Prespa Basin" that implements the Society for the Protection of Prespa with the co-funding of the European Union.

The Society for the Protection of Prespa is the “Best of the Best” once again!

15 April 2014

The Society for the Protection of Prespa (SPP) has been honoured by the European Commission for the second time, with a "Best of the Best" Award for its implementation of the LIFE + Information and Communication project 'Fish, Fisheries & European Policy in the Prespa Basin'.

After its successful premiere at the 15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, in August the documentary “Crafted by Time” will be screened for the first time in Australia as part of regional events for the Thessaloniki Festival and with the cooperation of the Greek Film Society Sydney.

The Life project was sealed with a meeting with public bodies and residents of Prespa

20 March 2013

On the occasion of the completion of the Life project “Fish, Fisheries & European policy in the Prespa basin”, a meeting was held on Wednesday 20 March 2013 at Prespa regarding fish and fishery issues.

“Crafted by time”, a documentary about Prespa by Vangelis Efthymiou, is in the 15th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival

8 March 2013

Adonis is starting to build his new wooden boat. He is one of the few who still have this skill. He makes a living from fishing in the Prespa Lakes. The Society for the Protection of Prespa has spent many years studying the fish species of these same lakes.

With the documentary “Crafted by Time”, director Vangelis Efthymiou transports us to the magical world of the Prespa Lakes.

The Perfectural Administration of Kozani, in cooperation with the Society for the Protection of Prespa, will host the exhibition “The treasures of our lakes”, aiming to inform the wider public in the issues concerning the rare fish fauna of Prespa.

Fishermen and cattle farmers in Prespa are taking an active part in wetland management

January 2013

The management of the wetland of Lesser Prespa Lake is the responsibility of the Prespa National Park Management Body (PNPMB). The PNPMB is supported in this process by the Wetland Management Committee, which plays an advisory role.

The latest publication from the Society for the Protection of Prespa entitled "Saving fish biodiversity in the Prespa basin", which came about under the LIFE+ Information & Communication project "Fish, Fisheries and European Policy in the Prespa Basin", includes subjects such as the ecology of the fish species found in Prespa and the threats they face, the features of local fisheries and the problems fishermen encounter, what is and isn’t provided for under national and European legislation for fish and fisheries, the cross-border aspect of the issue and proposals for sustainable management.

The exhibition “The treasures of our lakes” will be hosted at the Aquarium of Kastoria in cooperation with the Society for the Protection of Prespa, in order to inform the wider public on the rare fish fauna of Prespa.

A meeting on the subject of ‘Fish and Fisheries’ was held on Friday 4th May at the Pyli Information Centre in Greece run by the Prespa National Park Management Body; the meeting was attended by organisations from transboundary Prespa, including municipalities, fishery authorities, national parks, fishery co-operatives, scientists and environmental organisations.

As part of the programme Life+ Information & Communication (2010-2013): “Fish, Fisheries and European Policy in the Prespa Basin,” the biologist and nature photographer Andrea Bonetti photographed 12 of the 23 fish species known to live in the Prespa lakes.

This year’s environmental education programme came to an end with a jaunt to the river

3 June 2011

Prespa’s schoolchildren celebrated the beginning of summer, seeing in the month of June with a trip to the river. After the preceding months of classroom-based educational activities at the Junior School, theory became practice down by the mouth of the Agios Germanos River.

The “Treasures of our Lakes” exhibition is on the road in the Transboundary Prespa Park

June 2011

The mobile exhibition about fish and fisheries in Prespa began its transboundary travels starting off at the Saraj Cultural Centre in FYR of Macedonia and the two largest secondary schools in the city of Korcë, Themistokli Germenji and Raqi Qerenxhi, in Albania.

With the occasion of the World Environment Day, during the last weekend of May the mobile exhibition “The treasures of our lakes” moved to the Environmental Park of Kastoria and more specifically to Kastoria’s Environmental Education Centre.

An open meeting for all concerned was convened on 17th December in Laimos, Prespa. The discussion touched on many issues that relate to Prespa’ s rare fish species, fisheries and the general state of the Prespa Lakes.